Shohei Shigematsu
Shohei Shigematsu is a Partner at OMA, based out of the New York office. He has been a driving force behind many of OMA’s projects, leading the firm’s diverse portfolio in the Americas for the past decade. With an emphasis on maximum specificity and process-oriented design, Sho provides design leadership and direction across the company for projects from their conceptual onset to completed construction.
Sho is responsible for delivering a number of cultural projects across North America, including Milstein Hall, an extension to the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University; a new museum for the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; the Faena Forum, a multi-purpose venue in Miami Beach and the renovation and reimagination of Sotheby’s New York Headquarters. His cultural projects currently in progress include a museum expansion for the New Museum in New York City; an extension to the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York and an event space for the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. Sho has also designed exhibitions for Prada, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Park Avenue Armory, Dior’s first US retrospective at Denver Art Museum and at the Dallas Museum of Art. He has collaborated with multiple artists – including Cai Guo-Qiang, Marina Abramović, Kanye West and Taryn Simon.
Sho’s urban and public space designs around the world include the Willow Campus masterplan, an integrated mixed-use village for Facebook in Menlo Park, California; a mixed-use development in Santa Monica; a new civic center in Bogota, Colombia; a post-Hurricane Sandy urban water strategy for New Jersey; and in Toronto, the largest transit-oriented development currently underway in North America.
Sho has built a number of innovative workspaces including–the China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing (2012), and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Headquarters (2013). He is currently designing a new business center in Fukuoka (2020) and OMA’s first tower in Tokyo for Mori Building Co, Ltd. (2022). Sho’s designs for three residential projects are under construction across the country–from New York to San Francisco and Miami.
A design critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Sho has lectured at TED and Wired Japan conference, and at universities throughout the world.
Projects
- Almere Masterplan
- Audrey Irmas Pavilion
- Barcelona Airport Terminal
- Bogotá Centro Administrativo Nacional
- Breda Chassé Parking
- Buffalo AKG Art Museum
- CCTV – Television Cultural Centre
- Cai Studio
- Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams
- Coach – Macy's Herald Square
- Coach – Omotesando Flagship
- Content
- Dallas Connected City
- Denver Art Museum Design Galleries and Studio
- Dior: From Paris to the World
- Dior: From Paris to the World, Dallas
- Discovery Partners Institute Headquarters
- Faena Bazaar
- Faena District
- Faena Park
- Global Financial Centre On The Bund
- HUD Rebuild by Design
- Harajuku Quest
- Havas Siege Sociale
- Hermitage Museum
- Jojutla Bridge
- Koningin Julianaplein
- Lacma Extension
- Louis Vuitton Visionary Journeys Bangkok
- Lucas Cultural Arts Museum
- Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology
- Marina Abramovic Institute
- Milstein Hall Cornell University
- Miss Dior
- NATO
- National Art Museum of China
- New Museum
- Once With Me, Once Without Me – Pam Tanowitz Performance at Faena Forum
- Park Grove
- Pierre Lassonde Pavilion
- Prada Waist Down
- Raleigh
- Resist, Delay, Store, Discharge: a Comprehensive Urban Water Strategy
- Scaffolding
- Shenzhen Stock Exchange
- Sotheby's New York
- South Beach Ace
- Taryn Simon: An Occupation of Loss
- Tenjin Business Center
- The Avery
- The Distributed House
- The Plaza at Santa Monica
- The ReefLine
- Tiffany Landmark
- Toranomon Hills Station Tower
- Torre Bicentenario
- UIC Center for the Arts
- UN City
- Universal Headquarters
- Venice Biennale 2014: La Feria Concreta
- West Louisville Food Port
- White City
- Zaragoza Museum of Fine Arts
- 11th Street Bridge Park
- 121 East 22nd Street
- 23 East 22nd Street
- 425 Park Avenue
- 7 Screen Pavilion
- 88 Seaport
Lectures
- The Berlage Institute
- Designing a Better Future for Cities in the Era of Climate Change
- The Past and Future of Architecture
- Columbia GSAPP
- Behind Sotheby's New Galleries
- University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture
- Public Performances: The Arts and Politics of Architecture
- Tokyo's Urban Renewal Project
- Mexico Design Week
- SCI-Arc
- University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning
- Building the Museum of the 21st Century
- What Are the Limits of Design?
- 「デザインの限界とは?」
- Next Typologies
- Designing an Institute for Performance Art
- Short List
- Making Milstein Hall
- On Generations
- Super Specific
- Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec